18. Department of Labor and Related Agencies · Notable · Needs Congress
Concentrate spending cuts in the Employment and Training Administration
Attempted
Printed page 615 18. Department of Labor and Related Agencies
“Spending reductions should occur primarily in the Employment and Training Administration (ETA).”
What has happened
- Attempted
The FY2027 Budget concentrates the Department's cuts exactly where the Quote asks. The two largest eliminations are Employment and Training Administration programs — Job Corps at -$1.6 billion and the Senior Community Service Employment Program at -$395 million — and the ETA account's total new obligations fall from $5,024 million estimated for 2026 to $3,425 million for 2027. Congress has enacted none of it.
- Budget of the U.S. Government, Fiscal Year 2027 — Department of Labor chapter ("The Budget requests $9.9 billion in discretionary budget authority for the Department of Labor (DOL) for 2027, a $3.5 billion or 25.9-percent decrease from the 2026 enacted level")
- Budget of the U.S. Government, Fiscal Year 2027, Appendix — Department of Labor
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
- §3b: a Budget request is a formal administration request, so attempted. Congress’s inaction is in this note, not a second event.
- The ETA obligation figures are from the Appendix’s Training and Employment Services program and financing table (identification code 016-0174 and the accounts around it); the eliminations are named in the Budget chapter’s Program Cuts and Eliminations section.
- What the Budget adds back inside ETA is Make America Skilled Again, a state block grant (#1641, #1644), so the concentration is a reallocation as well as a cut.
- Action
- eliminate
- Object
- Employment and Training Administration budget
- ID
- 1699